I felt a little ill

Martial, [lang_it]Epigrammi V, 9Epigrams V, 9

I felt a little ill and called Dr. Symmachus.
But you came with 100 medical students.
One hundred ice-cold hands poked and jabbed me.
I didn’t have a fever, Symmachus, when I called you,
but now I do.

We owe Romans many innovations in medicine, such as Galen's theories and some surgery tools still now used. Nonetheless, Martial pours scorn on the doctors of his day.